Kinesiology is the study of human movement. It applies, of course, in many facets of health care and education.

Kinesthetic Learning is an educational method used to help students learn using a hands-on approach, but more importantly, to help them retain what they learn and use it competently in any circumstance where that knowledge applies.

To give you an example of Kinesthetic Learning consider the use of an abacus to teach Arithmetic.  The student is able to see and move the pieces and grasp the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division right before his eyes, using his hands to make the computations.

This is a new field of study and growing as Educators discover how the use of movement can assist a student in grasping complex concepts and ideas.

It has been said that more than 50% of today’s learners facing learning challenges, learn kinesthetically.   It can be very challenging for a student who requires real life application including movement, to sit in a classroom. Often these students are labeled with ADD.

Are you or do you know anyone who learns kinesthetically?

Below is the link to a video of the beating of a woman by two police officers in Jasper, Texas.

Choose one or more of these topics and write an essay with your opinion based on facts you have researched.

Would her treatment have been the same or different depending on her race?

Should such a crime be tried as a “hate crime” or a “assault and battery”?

What kinds of thoughts would make a hate crime justified in the eyes of the assailant?

Are there any laws that make racist acts unacceptable to the People? If so what defines a “racist act”?

How could one prove racism or hate crime in a court of law?

What are the penalties for a hate crime vs an assault?

If you were the People’s Prosecutor, what would you do?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/video-captures-jasper-texas-police-officers-beating-woman-204501776.html

Please donate your pre-used (or new is OK too) tablets to these students.  How it works: The student will give you a written request and it will be authorized by me so that the student is going to really use what you are sending and have their parent’s permission to use the Internet. you have the proper address for mailing and so forth. Once received and in use you will receive a letetr of thanks, I am sure!

If you want to donate to the students in your city or town, find a teacher to help you!

Interested? Send me an email through this website.

Blessings from the LA Unified School District,

Tar a

Let’s start with Real Estate. Math for Real Estate 1

Real Estate is property that can be owned. This includes land and airspace and below ground space.  It is sold or transferred by the owner to another person.  If it is sold, the price must be accessed, meaning the exact value needs to be determined.  This exact sum, plus some taxes and fees that are paid to the state, that “lien” against the property – which is to say, they lean against the property as a weight of the tax weighs against its value.

There are several math problems, which come as questions and answers you can derive from your knowledge of basic math.

1. First we must arrive as an agreement as to the price of the item. This is “asked for” at, for example 300,000 for a home by the seller. They negotiate with regard to how to make an equitable exchange and discover they do not really know the value of the home in the market place. (Remember the “marketplace” is where people sell what they own.)

The figure the value of the home in this way:

So, here is our first math problem:  Consider that you determine the value of a property based on these points: Desirability (25%) Utility (25%) Scarcity (25%) and Transferability (25%).

We assume that the total amount must be in a range between 250-350,000 based on market trends from the sale price of other homes in the area and in the neighborhood. The homes are arranged handsomely, the nearby shopping is good, there is a good library and schools and parks.

Your factor of 25% Desirability can be weighed with these kinds of points: What do other people in the area consider makes their home valuable? Does the home have a beautiful garden, a big spacious family room or the view? Just like weighing your apples at the grocery store, put the % Desirability rating on a weight graph or scale that begins at the 250,000 mark and ends at 350,000. You can see whether or not it should be priced toward the lower end of the 250,000-350,000 spectrum or toward the higher end.  You can easily resolve this problem in your head to attain a good estimate of a sales price.  What sales price do you recommend?

Here is another math problem in Real Estate:

Mr. Genteeil decides to buy the property down the street when his neighbor and longtime friend, Shana, passed away.  Her son, who received the title at the time of her death, but he lived in Canada and could not care for the property.  It’s a good thing that Mr Genteeil  was skilled in real estate.  He offered to buy the home from her son.  The home was valued at $250,000. Shana’s son was excited and happy because he wanted to buy property in Canada with his family, and Mr Genteeil could give the property to his son and daughter-in-law who want to move to the house so their boy can learn from his grandfather, and his mother and father can work in the town nearby. Now there are many taxes from the state and Federal government at the time a house is sold. Each of these taxes needs to be figured, so your math problem is to figure them out:

5% of the property value determined by Assessment, must be paid for Property taxes each year. These are the taxes from the State and Federal government that you pay for being on the land so that you can be serviced with water, roads and power lines.  Federal taxes would pay for such things as water infrastructure and federal lands protection including reservoirs. State taxes may include things like water management as well, because municipalities purify and manage the flow of water into homes.  If you sell the home in the middle of the year you split the property taxes between the buyer and the seller.

Math problem:

1. What would be the Property Tax?
2. If the home was transferred to the new owner on January 1^st, what would be the percentage (in dollars) of the Property tax would be paid by the buyer and separately, the seller?

10% of the sale price goes to the Realtors who arranged for the sale of your home (both the Realtor for the Buyer and the Realtor for the Seller receive 5/50% each from the 10% or 50% of the dollar figure.  How much did the Buyer pay? How much did the seller pay?

Exercise:

Decide to sell one of the houses on your block.  And follow the same procedure

1. What do you think would be a good value for this house?  Why?
2. Considering the fees you will pay, what should you add to your estimated value of the house, these are fees associated with selling the house:

10% Realtor Fee (called “commission”)

5% Property tax (which may be split between buyer and seller)

Answer these questions in an essay where you explain why the buyer and seller should agree on the value and fees and therefore the overall final price including property fees and taxes.

What is Geometry? What does “Geometry” mean?

Geometry is the study of shapes, sizes, designs (patterns) and positions

From Greek : Geo (Earth) Metry (Measure)

Geometry has been used since the dawn of humanity for:

Building

Machines and technology

Navigation

Art/design

Measurement

Observe this by perceiving square portions of a grid.

Observe the area of empty space between two notes on musical bar and on a stringed instrument.

Observe the area of empty space in geometrical shapes that can be made in art or dance.

“Number Theory”: is the study of proven patterns (called “theorems” or “proofs”) and immutable laws of arithmetic.

Law: An invariable phenomenon of nature, eg. A volcano will erupt exactly the same way every time. Eg. gravity

Theorem: The cause of the phenomenon has been tested mathematically and not ever disproven. Eg. Volcanic eruptions are caused by a pressure build-up under the earth’s crust or combined chemical elements resulting in explosions. Eg. Pressure x in gravity is required for a weight of xy to fall to the ground.

Kinesthetically speaking, Application and Practice:

Observe a natural phenomenon such as a leaf, flower, cell, or body.

Observe the patterns in what you see.

That is the universal harmony of mathematics. Our numbers are language used in the science of perceiving and learning about these patterns.

About me: I am Tara, the writer of these blogs about education and specifically mathematics. I am a (primary-middle school) teacher. I am interested in having accurate materials and teaching methods.  By composing this series of mathematics lessons, I am preparing for my classes.  I am also a dancer. It is hard for me to sit in one place. It is easier for me to learn with movement, color, examples and ideas. According to research  60% of children learn kinesthetically, like I do.  I hope to be an Educator who has developed a way to provide this service of kinesthetic learning for others as well as myself. I also hope to find the philosophic answer to this question: “WHY I am doing mathematics in the first place?  Because I am not going to use the information.” Discovering the answer to this question has sent me on an adventure to learn the fundamentals of nature and our universe as expressed in mathematical language. “God is universal harmony perceived through numbers.”  - Pythagoras.  xo Tara Pelton 

A Theorem is an evident pattern in nature or natural phenomenon that can be shown to exist (proven) with mathematics. Theorems that apply to the 1st, second or third dimension can be seen in our physical/material world. Other dimensions or realities an be proven mathematically, but we may have not seen them evident.

We have not discovered all of the patterns of Nature in the Science of Mathematics, so Mathematicians are always looking to discover new patterns, and to prove them. Once they have been proven, they are called a Theorem.

Remember: a scientist makes a hypothesis based on his question or curiosity. Then he or she does the experiments to discover if the hypothesis is true.  Once a hypothesis can be proven it is called a Theory. In Mathematics, it is called a Theorem.

Pascal’s Theorem is expressed as follows:

Consider 6 points on a circle. Define them A, B, C and A’, B’ and C’.  You will discover (AB’) (A’B) (BC’) (B’C) (AC’) (A’C)

You can see this for yourself by putting the 6 points on a circle, drawing the lines as above and noting the intersecting points. They are co-linear or all on the same line.

This pattern is easily observable in nature, it is reflected in art and even music and musical rhythm.

Applied Kinesiology (applied science of movement)

Kinesthetically, this can be expressed by tracing these lines on a grid and forming various geometric patterns.

About me: I am Tara, the writer of these blogs about education and specifically mathematics. I am a (primary-middle school) teacher. I am interested in having accurate materials and teaching methods.  By composing this series of mathematics lessons, I am preparing for my classes.  I am also a dancer. It is hard for me to sit in one place. It is easier for me to learn with movement, color, examples and ideas. According to research  60% of children learn kinesthetically, like I do. I hope to be an Educator who has developed a way to provide this service of kinesthetic learning for others.I also hope to find the philosophical answer to this question: “WHY I am doing mathematics in the first place?  Because I am not going to use the information.” Discovering the answer to this question has sent me on an adventure to learn the fundamentals of nature and our universe as expressed in mathematical language. “God is universal harmony perceived through numbers.” – Pythagoras

xo Tara Pelton 

Colinear points are those that lay on one line.

Concurrent points are those lines that intersect at a single point.

There is a Placement or Rhythm of Movement of points along a line, just as in music there are notes.  Vertical line placement can be expressed on a scale of musical notes.

The reflection of this concept in Dance and Design is both rhythm of movement (movement and lack of movement) in any straight direction or line: up, down, side-to-side, or horizontal.

Mathematics Day 5.2: Elementary Geometry: Pascal’s Theorem: What is a Theorem?

What is a Theorem?  What is Pascal’s Theorem in elementary Geometry?

A Theorem is an evident pattern in nature or natural phenomenon that can be shown to exist (proven) with mathematics.

We have not discovered all of the patterns of Nature in the Science of Mathematics, so Mathematicians are always looking to discover new patterns, and to prove them. Once they have been proven, they are called a Theorem.

Remember: a scientist makes a hypothesis based on his question or curiosity. Then he or she does the experiments to discover if the hypothesis is true.  Once a hypothesis can be proven it is called a Theory. In Mathematics, it is called a Theorem.

Pascal’s Theorem is expressed as follows:

Consider 6 points on a circle. Define them A, B, C and A’, B’ and C’.  You will discover (AB’) (A’B) (BC’) (B’C) (AC’) (A’C)

You can see this for yourself by putting the 6 points on a circle, drawing the lines as above and noting the intersecting points. They are co-linear or all on the same line.

Kinesthetically, this can be expressed by tracing these lines on a grid and forming various geometric patterns.

New Children: Educational Kinesiology: Fundamental Geometry: Projective Line Geometry